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Enigmas Hidden…or Not?

July 11, 2014June 12, 2014Leave a comment

“I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.”

— James Joyce

Natural Writer…Natural Heart Surgeon

July 9, 2014June 12, 2014Leave a comment

“Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.”

— Maya Angelou

Cross Twain

July 7, 2014June 12, 2014Leave a comment

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”

— Mark Twain

Foundational Dreams

July 5, 2014May 27, 2014Leave a comment

” . . . if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary . . . and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Enemy Outposts

July 3, 2014May 27, 2014Leave a comment

“It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

― Sally Kempton

Urban Perfection

July 1, 2014May 27, 2014Leave a comment

“There’s no soul in perfection.”

— Keith Urban

Sane Writers Wanted

February 3, 2014November 28, 2013Leave a comment

“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”

― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

A Book Begins…

January 18, 2014October 12, 20132 Comments

“A book begins as a private excitement of the mind…”

— E. L. Doctorow

The Right Word

January 16, 2014October 12, 2013Leave a comment

” For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Inflate Not Your Prose

January 14, 2014October 12, 2013Leave a comment

“Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. The more sophisticated your audience, the more likely they are to be put off, rather than impressed, by inflated prose.”

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Enigmas Hidden…or Not?

“I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.”

— James Joyce

Natural Writer…Natural Heart Surgeon

“Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.”

— Maya Angelou

Cross Twain

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”

— Mark Twain

Foundational Dreams

— Henry David Thoreau

Enemy Outposts

“It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

― Sally Kempton

Urban Perfection

“There’s no soul in perfection.”

— Keith Urban

Sane Writers Wanted

“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”

― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

A Book Begins…

“A book begins as a private excitement of the mind…”

— E. L. Doctorow

The Right Word

” For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Inflate Not Your Prose

“Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. The more sophisticated your audience, the more likely they are to be put off, rather than impressed, by inflated prose.”

—Strunk and White

“I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.”

— James Joyce

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“Some critics will write ‘Maya Angelou is a natural writer’ – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.”

— Maya Angelou

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“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”

— Mark Twain

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— Henry David Thoreau

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“It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

― Sally Kempton

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“There’s no soul in perfection.”

— Keith Urban

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“Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.”

― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

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“A book begins as a private excitement of the mind…”

— E. L. Doctorow

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” For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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“Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. The more sophisticated your audience, the more likely they are to be put off, rather than impressed, by inflated prose.”

—Strunk and White

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